Jan Kautz is Senior Director of Computer Vision and Machine Learning Research and leads the Visual Computing Research team at NVIDIA, working predominantly on computer vision problems (from low-level vision through geometric vision to high-level vision), as well as machine learning problems (including deep reinforcement learning, generative models, and efficient deep learning). Before joining NVIDIA in 2013, Jan was a tenured faculty member at University College London. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (1999), an MMath from the University of Waterloo (1999), received his PhD from the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (2003), and worked as a post-doc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-2006).